AppleInsider Staff
Legacy MobileMe users began receiving e-mails this week warning that the deadline is fast approaching. The company originally announced a year ago that MobileMe will cease to exist as of June 30, 2012.
The deprecated service, which used to be offered for $99 per year, has been replaced by Apple's new, free cloud-based offering, dubbed iCloud. As part of that transition to iCloud, the iDisk, Gallery and iWeb services will no longer be offered.
Before MobileMe goes dark on June 30, users should log in to their account and back up and save all of the content that is stored on the Web in the iDisk, Galleries and iWeb services. A step-by-step tutorial on how to do this was published on Friday by Ars Technica.
For those who want to continue using Apple's cloud-based services, a MobileMe account must be rolled over to iCloud. The transition must be completed by June 30 for users who want to keep their Apple e-mail account, as well as calendars, working properly.
In April, Apple began attempting to entice users to upgrade to iCloud from MobileMe by offering them a free copy of Snow Leopard. The company has also granted MobileMe subscribers a free 20 gigabytes of storage on iCloud until September.
Apple is expected to announce further enhancements to iCloud later this month at its Worldwide Developers Conference. One report has claimed that Apple will launch a new photo sharing feature, while a beta website that was temporarily available to the public suggested Apple plans to add Notes and Reminders to the iCloud.com website.
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Wonder if Apple will announce an iDisk replacement in iCloud at WWDC…
This transition to iCloud from MobileMe is going to be a major pain in the butt.
MobileMe has worked well for linking my Macs, iPad and iPhones.
I make great use of iDisk and like it better than DropBox.
This pisser is that I have to move to Lion and lose all my Rosetta apps, many of which have no new alternative.
Why do Windows users still get to use XP and we have to move up to Lion?
So the next couple of weeks are going to be a pain in the you know what.
This pisser is that I have to move to Lion and lose all my Rosetta apps, many of which have no new alternative.
Other than Quicken, what do you use that still doesn't have a modern alternative?
You say that as though using XP is some kind of privilege.
My office hasn't moved to Lion yet, so I'll likely lose my Mobile Me (soon to be iCLoud) syncs here. I'm not happy with being pushed. Hard to push back though. :(
A few days ago the email server stopped accepting my password for my mac.com email address, when I access it from a computer running Leopard.
I was under the impression that mac.com addresses would still work, if the person set up an iCloud account under Lion (which I have).
Has anyone else experienced this?